The UNSW Shared & Home Drives are available via mapped drive (automatically created on SOE Windows PCs as I: and H: drives). These are suitable for day-to-day project storage, you can work directly on the files without copying elsewhere. Home drives are for an individual staff member only and cannot be shared. Shared Drives are managed by schools, with flexible access management.

Version control systems like GitHub and Azure Devops record changes to files over time, allowing you to go back to older versions, create new branches for experimentation. Version control is most useful for keeping track of programming code, large websites, documentation, and other collections of information. Using one of these cloud-based version control systems uploads copies of your data to the service. These repositories are able to be private (only accessible by invited people), or Public, where the public can view the data. If you do this, be sure to apply a license to your data, and be aware that all files and their contents will be publicly available.

GitHub:

This service is approved for data classified up to "Private"

Data on this service is stored overseas.

Multiple copies of the data are kept

All previous version of the data are retained

Join the UNSW organisation to gain access to UNSW local repositories and other benefits

Azure Devops:

This service is approved for data classified up to "Sensitive" and if you enable Multifactor Authentication, "Highly Sensitive"

Data on this service is stored in Australia.

Multiple copies of the data are kept

All previous version of the data are retained

Use your zID to log in to use the UNSW enterprise license

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Jupyter Notebooks

A Jupyter notebook is an open source web application that enables the consolidation of narrative text (markdown), live code (Python, R, and F#) and visualisations onto a single, sharable notebook. At UNSW, Microsoft Azure Notebooks is a Jupyter notebook platform available to UNSW staff: https://research.unsw.edu.au/jupyter-notebooks

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Adobe Cloud Storage

As part of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite available to UNSW staff members, cloud storage is available. Some important details about this storage:

This service is approved for data classified up to "Private"

Data on this service is stored in a data centre in Japan

Multiple copies of the data are kept

Deleted data is recoverable for 14 days after deletion

Data is deleted when a zID is deleted

Inactive accounts are deleted after 2 years

Due to the limitations above we recommend research data stored on this service is copied to a UNSW supported platform regularly to reduce the risk of data loss.

Some external resources suitable for research data and approved for storing of UNSW research data include:

Space.intersect – provided by Intersect http://www.intersect.org.au/space. There is a cost to your project budget. This can be cost-effective for certain types of projects and supports collaboration, virtual labs and access to computational services.